From Reader George:

The crap spewing machine in D.C. keeps on a spewing..

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Is Ashton Carter Insane?

US Secretary of Defense says Russia and China “Potentially More Damaging” than ISIS. “Terror elements like ISIL, of course, stand entirely opposed to our values. But other challenges are more complicated, and given their size and capabilities, potentially more damaging… Some actors appear intent on eroding these principles and undercutting the international order that helps enforce them… Of course, neither Russia nor China can overturn that order. But both present different challenges for it.”

These are the words of US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. The world should be, and largely is, baffled by the stupidity and arrogance of such statements.

ISIS beheads, tortures, and kidnaps people. It has shocked the world with well publicized, horrendous acts of brutality — such as burning people alive. How exactly can Russia and China to be equated to such forces?

Russia has not invaded any country. Neither has China. Russia and China have not kidnapped anyone. They are not abducting and torturing people. Even if the most extreme allegations from anti-China and anti-Russia fanatics are to be believed, in no way can these two major countries be compared with ISIS.

Restraint in the Face of US Provocations

Both Russia and China have shown a great deal of restraint in recent years. For four years, the United States funded and supported a campaign of violent terrorism against Russia’s allies in the Syrian government. Only after four years of relentless attacks, and the emergence of ISIS, did Russia finally dispatch its forces to defend the legitimate, internationally recognized Syrian government.

Meanwhile, a hostile anti-Russian regime has been forcibly installed in Ukraine. Ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine are facing an onslaught of violence from the US-backed, -trained and -armed Kiev regime, which was installed in a violent coup. Russia has not sent its military into Ukraine, despite endless calls for war and hostility from the new regime in Kiev. Russia has shown amazing restraint in response to open threats from an illegitimately installed regime, led by Hitler-admiring fanatics who have set up shop on its borders.

And what has China done? A pro-US regime has controlled China’s island of Taiwan since 1949. China has not sent its soldiers to reconquer this stolen territory, despite the fact that the virulently anticommunist Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party and the CIA use Taiwan as a base for subversion against the People’s Republic on the mainland.

The Central Intelligence Agency has funded and promoted unpopular and violent religious extremists in China. With US support, the Tibetan separatist movement, the takfiri militants among the Uighurs, and the Falun Gong have all been actively working to destabilize the country. Falun Gong has kidnapped children and promoted anti-government propaganda. The takfiri sects among the Uighurs, with growing links to ISIS, have launched a campaign of mass stabbings and bombings. Tibetan separatists have at various times launched campaigns of random assaults and street attacks on people perceived to be ethnically Han.

Meanwhile, US airplanes continue to provoke China by intentionally violating its airspace. China is being actively surrounded by US military bases, as the US escalates its presence in the Philippines, south Korea, Azerbaijan, and many other countries in the much heralded “Asian Pivot.” The United States has recently established the Trans Pacific Partnership as a direct economic attack on China.

Despite so many provocations, China has not attacked the United States, and has worked very hard to keep political and economic relations between the two countries on good terms.

Questions about ISIS and the Pentagon

http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/17/is-ashton-carter-insane/

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